Join the conversation about federal and state fiscal issues & CT competitiveness through job growth and education reform.

Speakers and Panelists will include:

Governor Dannel P. Malloy (invited)

Senator Richard Blumenthal

Congressman Jim Himes

Dave Walker, Former US Comptroller General

John Rathgeber, CEO of CBIA

Ted Buerger, No Labels

State Comptroller Kevin Lembo

Dr. Fred Carstensen, Director of CCEA

Wade Gibson, Policy Director,CT Voices for Children

Walker’s critics will scoff at the notion he’s someone who can make government work. But locally Walker, a pretty consistent critic of Mayor Bill Finch’s Democratic regime, is becoming more influential in city politics.

And even Finch, whose administration wasn’t exactly giving Walker the time of day, has decided the mayor can no longer afford to dismiss the ex-comptroller.

Walker and the mayor met a few weeks ago for a private conversation. But Finch and his people obviously decided the mayor might benefit from letting folks know about the get together, and sent out the following photo/message on Twitter: